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The prohibition extends beyond automated tools to any manual equivalent, meaning no method of systematically copying or collecting CL content is permitted.
You are prohibited from copying or collecting CL content through any automated tool or manual equivalent, including by hand.
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You may not display any personal contact, banking, or peer-to-peer payment information, whether in relation to you or any other person (for example, names, home addresses or postcodes, telephone numbers, email addresses, URLs, credit/debit card...)
Bypass or ignore instructions contained in our robots.txt file that controls automated access to portions of our Services;
Send content created in Mailchimp through another service.
"You agree not to copy/collect CL content via robots, spiders, scripts, scrapers, crawlers, or any automated or manual equivalent (e.g., by hand).Excerpt from Craigslist's Terms of Use
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The prohibition extends beyond automated tools to any manual equivalent, meaning no method of systematically copying or collecting CL content is permitted.
You are prohibited from copying or collecting CL content through any automated tool or manual equivalent, including by hand.
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